We live in a musical age of repetition and recycling, especially when it comes to new bands trying to establish a certain mood of sound. Shelf Lives clearly don’t give a Friar Fuck about any of that shit, as everything the London-based duo unleash has its own ferocious personality. The electro-punk duo this week shift their creativity into overdrive with “BITE”, an adrenalized rager of a tune that leaves the listener out of breath after a relentless three minutes.
“It’s about the battle between your awake spiritual brain that is trying its best to be a better person and to let go of its pride, and catching yourself going back to that angry monkey brain,” Shelf Lives reveal. “That’s why it’s called ‘BITE’, because it’s the most primitive thing we can do when we feel scared.”
The frenzied track crashes our lives with an accompanying video, and here’s what vocalist Sabrina Di Giulio and guitarist/producer Jonny Hillyard have to say about it: “The idea of having a modern day man losing his mind in the woods to temptation seemed the most fitting, as temptation is what brings us closer to that monkey part of our brain, and our modern mind is what pulls us away.”
Get primal with Shelf Lives below.
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